A vigil is being held in Liverpool city centre this evening to mark the seventh anniversary of the murder of Huyton teenager Michael Causer . My colleague Eleanor will be bring you more from vigil later on this evening.

About Wirral

A peninsula situated between the River Mersey and the River Dee, looking across to Liverpool on its east side and the River Dee and the Welsh hills to the west, Wirral is home to 319,000 people. It is the birthplace of Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, boasts 1,900 listed buildings while Birkenhead was the home of the first two Boy Scout Groups in the world.

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Trinity Mirror Merseyside, the Echo's parent company, is one of the North West’s largest multimedia providers reaching more than 900,000 adults every month.

The Liverpool Echo, Trinity Mirror Merseyside’s flagship brand, is the area’s best-read newspaper including national newspapers.

The Liverpool Echo reaches 1 in 3 people in the area with a daily readership of more than 256,000* people.The Liverpool Echo website reaches 1.5 million unique users each month who look at around 8.5 million pages**.

The Editor

Alastair Machray

Alastair Machray was appointed editor of The Liverpool Echo in 2005 and is also editor-in-chief of Trinity Mirror Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales. He is a former editor of The Daily Post (Wales and England) and editor-in-chief of the company's Welsh operations. Married dad-of-two and keen golfer Alastair is one of the longest-serving newspaper editors in the country. His titles have won numerous awards and spearheaded numerous successful campaigns.